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  Marijuana Oil Bill Passes Kentucky Senate

  March 13, 2014 at 2:58 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Lawmakers appear ready to make marijuana oil legal in Kentucky, after the state Senate unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that would make the controversial extract available to treat children with uncontrollable seizures. House leaders say they expect the measure to pass that chamber as well. The bill, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Julie Denton, would allow the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville medical schools to conduct research and allow anyone enrolled in a U.S. Food and Drug Administration [...]

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  Colorado Recreational Pot Purchases Add $2 Million to State Revenue

  March 13, 2014 at 8:49 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  The state of Colorado’s collected $2 million in taxes on the approximately $14 million in recreational marijuana sales since the drug was legalized and regulated. Officials will use the windfall to build new schools and possibly for advertisements against driving while high Colorado has collected a lot of green from the state’s foray into recreational pot sales. In January, the state collected about $2 million in taxes from the sale of approximately $14 million worth of marijuana, the State Department of Revenue [...]

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  Medical Marijuana and ‘The Entourage Effect’

  March 12, 2014 at 8:39 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  In the early 1960s, a young postdoctoral student stumbled onto something that puzzled him. After reading the literature on cannabis, he was surprised to see that while the active compound in morphine had been isolated from opium poppies 100 years before and cocaine isolated from coca leaves around the same time, the active component of marijuana was still unknown. This simple observation launched his life’s work. That young Israeli researcher, Raphael Mechoulam, is now a heavily decorated scientist, recently nominated [...]

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  Marijuana Use On The Rise Among Baby Boomers

  March 11, 2014 at 8:42 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Like many other Americans, when lawyer Keith Stroup comes home after a long day at work, he likes to unwind by pouring a glass of wine, sitting on the couch and enjoying the news. But first he’ll roll a joint. “If I’m home, not traveling, I smoke generally every evening. … That’s just my routine. It has been for many years,” the 70-year-old Washington, D.C., native told The Huffington Post. Stroup, who founded the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana [...]

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  California Democrats Back Marijuana Legalization In Party Platform

  March 10, 2014 at 8:18 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  California Democrats have approved a party platform including a plank calling for marijuana legalization, marking a major shift for the state party. As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, state party delegates moved Sunday to adopt a platform that includes support for “the legalization, regulation and taxation of pot in a manner similar to that of tobacco or alcohol.” The platform was adopted by a near-unanimous voice vote. California Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom, formerly the mayor of San Francisco, made the case for the position change during [...]

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  FDA Moves Forward With Marijuana-Based Drug To Fight Childhood Epilepsy

  March 9, 2014 at 6:10 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  The Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation for a cannabis-based drug developed to treat childhood-onset epilepsy, GW Pharmaceuticals announced last week. Although not full FDA approval — its maker still must demonstrate the efficacy of the drug in clinical trials — the orphan drug designation represents a tremendous step forward for cannabis-based medicine. The drug, called Epidiolex, contains a highly purified, plant-derived form of cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound found in marijuana that doesn’t produce the “high” sensation [...]

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  The City You’d Least Expect Has Just Decriminalized Marijuana

  March 8, 2014 at 5:22 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Lo and behold: Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States and the center of federal government, has decriminalized the possession and consumption of small amounts of marijuana. By a near-unanimous vote, the D.C. city council has decided to eliminate laws that made possession of up to an ounce of marijuana a criminal offense punishable by a fine of $1,000 or a six-month prison sentence. When the new regulations go into effect this summer, possession will be punishable only by a fine [...]

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  Michigan State Board Says PTSD Patients Should Be Able to Use Medical Marijuana

  March 8, 2014 at 8:39 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Dakota Serna served in the Marines during the Iraq War. He says memories of seeing friends and children killed left him suicidal after he came home. Serna says the only thing that has helped him get his life back on track is using marijuana. But that puts him on the wrong side of the law as it is currently written. “Somebody on paper can say that I’m a criminal,” said Serna. “Somebody can come to my house and try to [...]

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  Ganja Mothers, Ganja Babies

  March 7, 2014 at 3:35 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Our last issue featured an interview with Dr Melanie Dreher, a highly-respected academician and researcher who is probably the world’s foremost authority on ganja use in Jamaica. That interview contained a general overview of Dreher’s 25 years of Jamaican research, while this article will explore what she found out about uses of ganja by Jamaican women and children. Dreher’s research is interesting and relevant because it challenges the prevailing notion that all drug use during pregnancy is bad for children. Ironically, [...]

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